Today in WoW: Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011
by Adam Holisky 
Oct 19th 2011 at 11:59PM
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Blue posts
Tanking in patch 4.3
We haven't yet completed our tank balancing for 4.3 and, indeed, want to see more guild attempts on the PTR to check those results against our internal testing. We agree that DK (and possibly druid) tanks might not have the survivability against damage spikes that the block tanks have, and that is something we are taking a look at. We also agree that this is generally only a problem against very cutting-edge content, where a boss might kill a tank within very few hits if he or she doesn't receive adequate heals.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jyotai Oct 20th 2011 3:42PM
"We also agree that this is generally only a problem against very cutting-edge content, where a boss might kill a tank within very few hits if he or she doesn't receive adequate heals."
Wow raid assignments, community gearing, and player expectations are like the RL-economy.
1% of the players are on the 'cutting-edge content', but the other 99% behave as if they will be there, and assign who gets to be tank, heals, or DPS accordingly, specs as if they were in the 1%, and demands gear from their fellow group-mates as if they were currently tackling the 1%er content.
The majority disparages itself in an effort to pretend they are not 'common.'
So if there is an even slight edge for a certain type of tank in a very rare select type of extreme content, people will lock-out the other tanks from even lowbie routine content as if they were suddenly useless for anything.